Stevie+Kline,+Joyce+Mason

Room: **Aztec**

= Creating Student Sleuths: Primary Source Investigation  =

**Stevie Kline**

 * **Intermediate Unit 1**
 * **Technology Integrator and Training Specialist**
 * klines@iu1.k12.pa.us

**Joyce Mason**

 * **Canon-McMillan School District**
 * **CFF Coach / Librarian**
 * masonj@cmsd.k12.pa.us

This session will provide hands-on activities and demonstrate how teaching with primary resources encourages a varied learning environment for teachers and students alike. Analysis of documents, photographs, podcasts, and other primary resources, along with independent research, and group work become a gateway to sharpen students’ critical thinking skills and enthusiasm for inquiry. Primary sources are the essential building blocks of any culture’s history. Teaching with primary documents provides students with the opportunity to actively analyze, evaluate, and reflect upon information thus allowing them to construct their own understanding.

Participants will critically examine, analyze, and evaluate photographs, historical documents, and audio and video recordings using elements from the National Archives and the Presidential Libraries whose vast resources are available electronically at no cost to our citizens and schools  Participants will discover innovative ways to use digital tools (Wordle, Digital Vault, Thinkfinity, Digital Media Project Creation, CutePDF, YouTube) with primary resources from the National Archives.  ﻿﻿ to sites used during our presentation. Jog  FDR's Original Draft is below 



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